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  1. Balanced Maps 2 fork

    in Scenario Design/Map making

    Posted · Edited by Ceres

    @andy5995y

    Maybe you would like to consider adding a brief description of what this mod does? (not technically but from the player's perspective)

    Thanks for keeping up the great work! :thumbsup:

    PS and OT:

    Inserting text after @<username> seems to be problematic in the mobile (Android) browser on this forum. Text gets eaten by the editor, and then I cannot delete the remaining letter ("y" in this case). Is there a known solution for this?

    @Stan`

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  2. Does the AI Play to Its Opponent?

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Ceres

    Would it make sense to make her even "dumber" in terms of not being omniscient, in sandbox mode, or as a separate toggle? Admittedly, I'm asking this question more out of curiosity rather than because Petra is too hard to fight (well, we set her to 'medium', so we still have lots of possibilities for challenges). It could be interesting to see her behaviour of she didn't know where her opponents are (just like for human players without an unrevealed map). But on the other hand, it might not be worth the effort to code such an optional setting.

    @FreagarachoWould it be complex?

    PS and OT:

    I cannot delete that misplaced "o" letter when using the mobile (Android) Firefox browser, sorry.

  4. [RESOLVED] The connection was refused by the server

    in Help & Feedback

    Posted

    14 hours ago, dave_k said:

    One thing that I was reminded of after skimming that source module is that you should ensure that your computer has a numeric hostname. I remember reading about this somewhere, maybe in the gloox documentation or a 0ad bug report. On Linux this would involve adding an IP address for your host, including a private IP address (192.168.0.x) and a localhost IP address (127.0.0.1), ...

     

    3 hours ago, Stan&#x60; said:

    What info?

    See above. :)

  6. [RESOLVED] The connection was refused by the server

    in Help & Feedback

    Posted · Edited by Ceres

    So you opened the port for pyrogenesis.exe in Windows' firewall? Are there multiple entries for pyrogenesis.exe? If so, please allow connections to all of them to test it. You might later consider ticking them off again, if you feel insecure. I'm speaking about opening everything for 0ad, not just that port.

    One more thing you could try if you have a second PC or laptop also with 0ad in your local network (LAN): Can you host from one device and join from the other? Usually, this would trigger a Windows firewall message, asking you if you want to grant access permission (if you have not granted it already before). This would just check connectivity within your LAN.

    Finally, please check if your network is set in Windows to private or public, as depending on this, there might be different boxes to tick to grant the pyrogenesis.exe file permission to accept incoming traffic.

    Maybe you can also share the exact error message (if any) that comes along with your pproblem.

    You can also open the 0ad console (hit the ^° key in the top left corner of your keyboard - at least that's where I have it). There you might see some additional information you could share here.

  7. Suggestions for 0 A.D.

    in Gameplay Discussion

    Posted

    21 hours ago, davidsrsb said:

    In real battles in history, the commanders often took advantage of the terrain to suit their strengths and weaknesses.

    Bogs and swamps should slow down cavalry, rams and heavily armoured infantry a lot. Women and archers could escape from them there.

    This could make an interesting downside to advancing down the armour technology tree as the weight goes up

    Specific types of terrains could slow down units considerably. However, this was discussed already, and to my recollection it is not easy (or currently impossible), because certain terrain like swaps are not distinguishable (programmatically).

    The devs here might correct me, if I'm wrong. But still, I like the idea to give specific types of terrain some impact on the gameplay.

  9. Game apparently crashed but I can't get out of it ?

    in Help & Feedback

    Posted · Edited by Ceres

    And the LORD spake, saying,

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    "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it."

    :rofl:

    PS (for those who might not have recognized it):

    From the movie scene before the fight of the Knights of the Round Table (comprised of the hilarious Chapman, Cleese, Gilliam, Idle, Jones, Palin, and others) against the Rabbit of Caerbannog, in: Monty Python and the Holy Grail. :D

    • Haha 1

  18. First steps with EndeavourOS (and a bit ArchLinux) and beyond

    in Help & Feedback

    Posted · Edited by Ceres

    For people interested in using a GUI for SVN on Linux, I just installed RabbitVCS, i.e. the package with integration in Thunar (there are integrations available also for other Linux file explorers like Nautilus etc.).

    I had to install this first: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/thunarx-python/

    Then this: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rabbitvcs-thunar/

    I created an empty folder '0ad' on my software-raid (2 SSDs) that is mounted under /run/media/<myusername>, right-clicked on that folder and selected 'RabbitVCS SVN => Checkout...', and put 'https://svn.wildfiregames.com/public/ps/trunk/' into the URL field (see also 'Getting the code'). The rest is quite self-explanatory. Further instructions etc. are available for Windows users but should be applicable for Linux users as well:

     

  20. First steps with EndeavourOS (and a bit ArchLinux) and beyond

    in Help & Feedback

    Posted

    Pamac is a GUI for pacman, but I don't really need it (was just an example), as I'm confident in using pacman on CLI. BTW, doesn't yay not also work for ArchLinux repo (and Aur)? With regard to the desktop environment, I'll stick to xfce, as it's extremely performant even on my old PC with (at the moment) only 2 GB RAM. KDE is (to my recollection of several years ago) too much cluttered with too many settings possibilities and drawing on the resources, but maybe this has changed since then. For the time being, I'm quite happy with EnOS (thanks a lot to you for pointing it out in the beginning, besides pure ArchLinux!) and will set everything up, so I can test 0ad from svn etc. I'm typing this from Firefox 92.0.1, which I find cool as with Debian I was always used to live with some older v78 LTS of Firefox.

    Cheers! :)

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  21. First steps with EndeavourOS (and a bit ArchLinux) and beyond

    in Help & Feedback

    Posted

    Yes, that's a good point. Indeed SSDs are faster. I'll try to change this as you suggested. Thank you.

    I told the installer to use neither a swap nor a swap-with-hibernation partition, but to use a swap file. My understanding is that this has some (performance) advantages. However, I now wonder if it is really in use and how to check it.

    Another topic for me is the many different flavours of a same package, e.g. pamac (a GUI for pacman). How would I know which one to use (-all, -all-git, -aur, -aur-git) and which of the following selections (1, 2, 3) is good for me? 

    $ yay -S pamac-all
:: There are 3 providers available for xdg-desktop-portal-impl:
:: Repositoryextra
    1) xdg-desktop-portal-gtk 2) xdg-desktop-portal-kde :: Repositorycommunity
    3) xdg-desktop-portal-wlr 

Enter a number (default=1): ^C
$
$ yay -S pamac-all-git
:: There are 3 providers available for xdg-desktop-portal-impl:
:: Repositoryextra
    1) xdg-desktop-portal-gtk 2) xdg-desktop-portal-kde :: Repositorycommunity
    3) xdg-desktop-portal-wlr 

Enter a number (default=1): ^C
$
$ yay -S pamac-aur
:: There are 2 providers available for pamac-aur:
:: Repository AUR
    1) pamac-aur 2) pamac-classic 

Enter a number (default=1): ^C
$
$ yay -S pamac-aur-git
:: There are 2 providers available for libpamac>=11.1.0beta:
:: Repository AUR
    1) libpamac 2) libpamac-aur

    I understand that the 0 A.D. forum might not be the ideal spot to ask these many EnOS/ArchLinux/AUR-related questions. ;)

  22. Re-release of 0 A.D. Alpha 25: Yaunā

    in Announcements / News

    Posted

    48 minutes ago, Player of 0AD said:

    Currently I have Alpha 25a. Installed via SVN, on Linux

    I'd like to update to 25b.

    Do you use the svn version as a "daily gamer" or rather for testing stuff? I ask, because with svn I had (in the past, on a Debian system) the problem with non-cached gfx etc. I did not understand all of it but assume that 0ad from svn is maybe not as performant as a release (besides other issues that come along with "bleeding edge" stuff).

    @Stan` If I want to play vs. other at home who have a25 (not svn) running, should/can I nevertheless use svn, or rather a release? (most important for me would be performance)

  23. Re-release of 0 A.D. Alpha 25: Yaunā

    in Announcements / News

    Posted

    On 27/09/2021 at 9:51 PM, Ceres said:

    For interested people: I have made first experiences with EndeavourOS (ArchLinux is the basis), which is really great and offers installation of 0ad a25.

    See there:

    https://wildfiregames.com/forum/topic/57519-first-steps-with-endeavouros-and-a-bit-archlinux-and-beyond

    Skip the first posts from me, as many of them describe how I utterly failed at the beginning. ;) But further down comes the success story. :)

  24. First steps with EndeavourOS (and a bit ArchLinux) and beyond

    in Help & Feedback

    Posted · Edited by Ceres

    Oh my, this was a steep learning curve for me. ;) Now it's up and running. Here's what I did:

    I disconnected the 2 SSDs and only kept the 1 HDD connected. I also reordered (for good measure) the SATA ports to which the drives are connected (SSDs reconnected after EnOS installation), i.e. the HDD to SATA0, the 2 SSDs to SATA1 and SATA2 (it was the other way around first, but I don't know if it makes a difference). Furthermore, I went to the Intel BIOS settings => Advanced => Drig Config => Configure SATA as: AHCI and => Boot => UEFI boot: Enable (yes, UEFI enabled). Then I booted with the thumbdrive (32 GB USB stick) that contains the EnOS image and started the installer (with non-free Nvidia drivers selected). As only the HDD was connected, the following steps were easy, i.e. I selected this drive, enabled a swap file, and selected btrfs as file system. There was no question about where to store a bootloader etc. After the installation successfully completed, I shut EnOS down, switched the PC off, and reconnected the 2 SSDs. Then I restarted EnOS. Via the partition manager (gparted), I can now format the 2 SSDs and will try if I can make a software raid0 (striped) of them. :)

    I know that this thread might be a bit boring for many (please ignore it in that case) and maybe of interest for just very few users (then I'm happy). To be continued... :D

    PS: I renamed this thread, as it now seems to be more EndeavourOS-related.

  25. First steps with EndeavourOS (and a bit ArchLinux) and beyond

    in Help & Feedback

    Posted · Edited by Ceres

    @Yekaterina

    I've attached a 2 TB HDD that appears as /dev/sdc in the installer, and I want to install the complete EnOS there. I will only use EnOS on that PC, i.e. no dual-boot.

    Now I plan this:

    1. Select /dev/sdc
    2. Tick that the whole drive should be deleted (nothing on it)
    3. Select to use a swap file (Currently, I have only 2 GB RAM but have ordered 2x 4GB already; until then, I will need swap, I guess.)
    4. Select to format with btrfs

    So far, so good, or would you recommend something different?

    Besides, I'm not sure where to install the GRUB (as I abondened GPT/UEFI) bootloader to:

    1. Master Boot Record of /dev/sda (1st SSD drive that I would like to keep)
    2. Master Boot Record of /dev/sdb (2nd SSD drive that I would like to keep)
    3. Master Boot Record of /dev/sdc (the HDD, which sounds right to me, but maybe it's not?)
    4. System partition (/) (This would be on /dev/sdc, right?)
    5. Do not install a bootloader (Which does not make sense to me.)

    So which of the first 4 options is recommended? I assume it's the same for pure ArchLinux and for EndeavourOS.

    Thanks a lot for sharing your thoughts! :)

    From a post in StackExchange I understand that installing the Linux (e.g. EnOS) bootloader to the boot partition has some advantage. So it would be /dev/sdc in my case, right? And I would have to set the correct order of drives in the BIOS, too, I assume.

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    If you write the boot code to the boot partition (in contrast to MBR) then this code can be started if the boot code in MBR is able to do chain loading. This is also the preferred technique, in case when GRUB does not know how to handle the operating system. It just loads the boot code from the other (native) boot loader and executes it. When grub itself knows how to start the system, it does not need to use chain loading.

    PS:

    This did not work, i.e. the installation failed with the message:

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    Bootloader installation error

    The bootloader could not be installed. The installation command

    grub-install --target=i386-pc --recheck --force /dev/sdc1

    returned error code 1.

     

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